Hence my suggestion if you think he dived just play on and leave it to a review panel. Managers will be fuming with their players if they start getting 1 match bans, clubs will fine wages on players who do, and the practice will die out.

Unless the dive resulted in a penalty for them and they win the game with it.

From this season in the NBA they started fining flopers, which is same like divers in football. And people still flop, some people even continue to flop after they have been fined.

anytime you need to look multiple replies and slow mo to see wether he dived or not, I feel for the refs.

Except no. I don't feel for the ref. He stared straight down the gun barrel at Defoe when he dived and done nothing yet gave Bale a yellow for something much less noticeable. There is something wrong with the quality of referees in England.

Except no. I don't feel for the ref. He stared straight down the gun barrel at Defoe when he dived and done nothing yet gave Bale a yellow for something much less noticeable. There is something wrong with the quality of referees in England.

The quality of refs in england is probably second highest only beaten by germany, so not really sure what you think is wrong.
and you linked a slow-mo gif of the challenge and from that said he did it wrong isn't that exactly the point.

The quality of refs in england is probably second highest only beaten by germany, so not really sure what you think is wrong.
and you linked a slow-mo gif of the challenge and from that said he did it wrong isn't that exactly the point.

Just really... No. You honestly believe there is nothing wrong with the refereeing in England?

Also the last bit about the tackle on bale to me didn't really fit together as a sentence. So I just won't bother replying to it incase I misinterpret what you meant.

Refereeing in England is as bad as it is everywhere else, I mean not content with Graham Poll there was a ref who declined to send someone off for two yellows in English football this week! Still, could be worse, Scottish referees, jeeeeezus I'd rather have a piranha fish attached to my genitals!

I think he'd be more likely to accept a paycut just to escape the drama of Stamford Bridge to be fair, revolving door of management, a new shit storm every month & all of this while essentially being relegated from first team regular to squad player - if I was Lampard I'd want out as well! Even though he's 34 he's still a handy enough footballer to cope with the demands of the premiership, especially if he's got a good engine room around him to do the grunt work.

Just really... No. You honestly believe there is nothing wrong with the refereeing in England?

Also the last bit about the tackle on bale to me didn't really fit together as a sentence. So I just won't bother replying to it incase I misinterpret what you meant.

no, I'm not saying there is nothing wrong with the refereeing, I'm just saying its worse elsewhere, spain has the worst refs out of the top 4 leagues by a mile then italy and germany is ahead of england for first place, so they aren't any worse then elsewhere.

no, I'm not saying there is nothing wrong with the refereeing, I'm just saying its worse elsewhere, spain has the worst refs out of the top 4 leagues by a mile then italy and germany is ahead of england for first place, so they aren't any worse then elsewhere.

Hmm. I watch a lot of Spanish football and don't see as many blatant errors as English football, though this could be down to the fact that they don't make as much of a deal of it.
The only bit of stupid refereeing seen week in week out is the national rule that EVERY handball is a yellow card. That's just a generally stupid rule, though that's not a ref's interpretation, that's just a straight up, brick wall of a rule.